the time has come to see if you've absorbed the subway reader patterns i've been broadcasting in my homages to coverspy. can one judge a reader by his or her text? do all mass market enthusiasts use industrial-strength product? is everyone so poor at this point that they're rereading the books they were too cheap to sell back to the bookstore in college? so many questions.

here are the latest twelve titles i spied on trips around town; who's reading what, smarties? if you pair a book with its reader, i'll update the lists; you probably won't win anything, but one never knows, now does one.

i feel your pain, gracie, and i also feel Lady Six should have been reading lester bangs. (the actual lester bangs reader could easily have been her companion, i think.) 02, baldwin + nose piercing. ding ding! i wanted her gloves. i also think she should date the danticat reader.

i split the elbow on my favorite steven alan plaid shirt this morning, so i am now up to two (2) items of clothing split this week, despite a month of virtuous eating and gymgoing. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME, SCIENCE?

well done! somehow reading susan cooper goes hand in hand with, well, writing on one's hand. i have yet to read the pollan, but i imagine that when i do i'll wear my hat quite low. on Dark Reading, i...plan to reread dead souls when i finish war and peace, and as i recall it was rollicking? also the F train feels like it has a lot to prove.

08 is indeed the lester bangs reader...reader. ten bucks says he works in publishing; another ten says he works for a men's magazine. the rich dad, poor dad reader is superincongruous, or was to me, at least - not 06.

“Dragon design can be broken into essentially two species,” he explained at one point. Most had wings attached to the forelimbs. “The only other variation is the anatomically incorrect variation of the six-appendage creature”—four legs, like a horse, with two additional winged arms. “But there’s no large creature on earth that has six appendages!” He had become frustrated while sketching dragons that followed these schemes. The journal had a discarded prototype. “Now, that’s a dragon you’ve seen before,” he said. “I just added these samurai legs. That doesn’t work for me.”